Quotes About Days

I don't ask myself if I did what I set out to do. The calling was for a life and the junctures between one work and another were often not that explicit, the future only an abstraction we pull ourselves toward with, once again, the false geometry of days and nights, months and years, an illusion in the face of the continuum that makes up our lives.

Yet aside from the Angie distraction, it was starting to feel like the summers before it, with long, anonymous, and forgettable, but nearly perfect days away from stuffy classrooms, sloppy joes...

This book is called Blue Nights because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days,the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning.

because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days, the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning.

After Princeton, the years seem like a blur, but the days seem more like rapid fire. - Donald Rumsfeld in Year of Magical Thinking

When I try to reconstruct those weeks at UCLA I recognize the mudginess in my own memory. There are parts of days that seem very clear and parts of days that do not.

Nothing in this world could ever be as wonderful as the love you've giving me. Your love makes my days so very bright, just knowing you're my darling wife. Happy Anniversary!

May it not even be that death shall unite us to all romance, and that some day we shall fight dragons among blue hills, or come to that whereof all romance is but "Foreshadowings mingled with the images Of man's misdeeds in greater days than these"

Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile.

With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move.

Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.

What better way could they spend the last days of the world, than falling in love?

DEPARTURE The horizon slopes away The days are longer Trip A heart hops in a cage A bird sings It is going to die Another door is going to open At the end of the corridor Where a star Begins to shine A dark-haired woman The lantern of the departing train (Departure)

In those days, cigarette companies could still advertise on television, but lawyers couldn't; some changes are for the better, and others are not.

a sorrowing sky, the days and nights washed by the grief of angels...

There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

I do have my dark days. I suppose everyone does. The difference is that most people don't kill their husbands with an axe.

That's not precisely what I had in mind. Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl.

Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl.

We passed the rest of the day in pleasant conversation, wandering among his reminiscences of the dear departed days when men were men, and the pernicious weed of civilization was less rampant upon the bonny wild face of the Highlands.

There it was, Number 17; the neat brick three-story house that he'd rushed into—and out of—three days ago.

I will praise your madness, and in a language not mine, speak of music that wakes us, music in which we move. For whatever I say is a kind of petition, and the darkest days must I praise.

Time, my twin, take me by the hand through the streets of your city; my days, your pigeons, are fighting for crumbs—

Life is precious, love is a gift. The sun might not always shine on us. But those will be the days that we take pleasure in the rain.